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...walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from every barroom. New York gave him the first of its famed civic welcomes, with Edison bulbs spelling out WELCOME DEWEY on the Brooklyn Bridge. Admiral Dewey waited 17 months after the Battle of Manila Bay before coming back to his countrymen. No sooner had he returned than, aged 62, he married the sister...
Good sets by Designer Clark Robinson include a barroom walled solid with bottles, and a Russian cafe...
Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...
...substitute for Tenor John McCormack, who refused an offer of $5,000 to come and sing (his daughter is being married shortly in Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any singing Irishman to take McCormack's place." he rose and throbbed out "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Mother Macree" with sentimental gusto...
Potter Palmer's greatest contributions to U. S. social history were the silver dollar motif for barroom floors and his Chicago home at No. 1350 Lake Shore Drive.* Last week, after a lapse of three years, the great castellated pile that he plunked down on a sand dune in 1882 was repossessed by his family...